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...from his natural habitat on the American prairies down to the Argentine, where he dons a gancho costume and with his usual grace, assumes the role of the South American cowboy. The final and most sparkling sequence, the "Aquarela do Brasil" (watercolor of Brazil) is a beautiful spectacle of rhythmic color and samba music in which Donald Duck is introduced to Rio by Joe (Jose) Carioca, a personable young parrot of exuberant tastes...
...than a feeling for Beethoven. The circumstances that begat the two different types have, in this discussion, nothing to do with the case. Most jazzmen would be amazed at the similarity between strict jazz and the thoroughbass music of Bach's time. In both cases you have the rigid rhythmic pattern over which an intricate web of thematic variations is woven. Bach's work had the advantage of being composed by a single highly developed talent, while jazz has to depend on a rare combination of many talents, a band where each player can give the theme a unique personal...
...whole matter can be answered with a question: "What do you expect from a swing band?" If you expect dance music, the latest pop tunes, and a few rhythmic novelties, Miller's your man. But considering the past achievements of other bands, a critic has the right to expect more than that. Even if your tastes are confined to popular songs, Artie Shaw had infinitely better selection. Miller plugs anything the publishers are behind; Shaw plugged good old tunes if he couldn't find any good new ones...
...Ellington, or in-between, like Goodman. If you have simple arrangements, you should have simple instrumentation. Only Miller has simple arrangements and lush instrumentation. To make matters worse, they're simple to the point of being banal. Certainly his pop tunes are turned out according to formula. On the rhythmic numbers you get more variety, but usually the interesting parts are cribbed from Ellington. Compare "American Patrol" as interpreted by Miller and by Muggsy Spanier. It's one of Miller's better records beyond a doubt, but its pretentiousness isn't worth peanuts alongside of Spanier's more modest efforts...
Five years ago Composer-Bandleader Scott rose almost overnight from obscurity to become the talk of the smart jazz set. A staff pianist for six years in Columbia Broadcasting's Manhattan studios, Scott formed a six-man "Quintet" in December 1936, began composing and broadcasting sharp, rhythmic, unsingable pieces with wacky titles (War Dance for Wooden Indians, Bumpy Weather Over Newark, Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals...